General

The Directorate-General for Trade conducts the EU's common policy on trade with countries beyond the EU borders.

This covers, among other things, Trade negotiations with countries outside the EU, improving market access for exporters and importers, ensuring that fair practices are applied to international trade and assessing the environmental and social impacts of trade.

We often receive enquiries that fall outside the scope of our work, such as questions about trade between EU countries, export/import promotion, import duties and taxation, consumer protection or recruitment in the European Commission.

Therefore we invite you to check on the "Other sources" tab to see whether your question can be better handled by another service of the European Commission.

For general questions on Trade:

Online enquiry form

Send your enquiry on matters related to EU common policy on external trade using our online enquiry form or by postal mail.

Press enquiries

Postal mail :

Trade defence

Trade defence includes the defence of European production against international trade distortions such as unfair subsidisation or dumping.

Processing of personal data in investigation-related documents

Documents processed during an investigation are stored in a document management system named Sherlock.
The privacy statement pertaining to this application can be consulted here: Sherlock privacy statement.

Enquiries:

Mailing address:

Export information

Please note that Export Promotion from third countries into the EU is not part of the European Commission's task.The Directorate General for Trade is therefore unable to assist exporters with finding customers, suppliers or partners. Sources of information about import/export are listed below.

Exporting from a developing country to the EU

Customs, quotas, taxation, tariffs, duties and ceilings

Other sources

If you are unable to find particular services or information on this website, it could be outside of the Directorate General for Trade's scope of activity. Here are some other commonly requested resources:

Spain

Sweden

UK

Access to documents

Citizens and residents of the European Union have the right to access documents from the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission (Article 15 of the Treaty on the functioning of the EU)

In order to facilitate access to documents, an online register has been put in place with reference to Commission documents produced since January 2001 (legislative documents, agendas and minutes of Commission meetings)